A/N: Three Words Drama...Drama...Drama...Enjoy.

15: December 30th 12:45 P.M. Kazari Uiharu's Apartment.

"So, what's the plan for today Misaka?" Uiharu was lint rolling her outfit for the party tomorrow night and was noticing me kicking my feet up and down on the bed.

"Well, I have to go talk with Kamijo at 2:30, we could go to that Australian restaurant he mentioned. It would save me the trouble of walking over"

"I don't know if I should, I wouldn't want to interfere."

"We'd just grab lunch and then you could go off and look around while we talk."

Uiharu then got an idea in her mind. Without realizing how fast she moved, the door was opened and I could feel the cold air come in.

"Come on Misaka let's get going."

"And I thought Kuroko was fast…"

Within 10 minutes we began walking to the mall. That definitely was one of the highlights for me this year. The day I ended up shopping with Saten and Uiharu was when we ran into the Gravitron guy. By sheer luck Kamijo happened to be there as well, he always did manage to show up when I wasn't expecting it, and that did include the violin solo. Somehow that Imagine Breaker of his negated the guys bomb and we saved that little girl. That really did start a turnaround of my overall opinion for him.

"I wonder…"

"Wonder What…" Uiharu noticed me tugging on my sleeves a surefire sign that I was occupied.

"Oh its nothing…" We reached the mall in no time flat and spent a good hour looking for bargains. Uiharu managed to find a few new flowers for her headband and I even picked up a favor for the party tomorrow.

"They sure do make Gekota into anything…" Uiharu's sentiment was a bit much as I stared at a pair of 2015 glasses Then at which point i saw it was almost 1:30.

"Oh boy we got an hour left, lets get over to the restaurant."

Not sure what Tomas taste was when it came to food or stuff but as we sat down we got the sense of a very friendly atmosphere. The food ended up being very well done especially the fried onion in the shape of a blossom. It was while Uiharu was trying to cut into shrimp when I heard a voice behind me.

"Misaka?"

We turned around and saw him standing there. The black jacket of his did bring out the finer details of his blue eyes. Uiharu got wind of this and realized her cue, at least she managed to leave her share of the bill and tip.

"I'll be outside…"

As she exited Toma took her seat and stared on at me with a look of concern and wonder. I decided to break the ice.

"How's it been for you, we ran into Index a few weeks ago at the movies, she said something about your parents were in town…"

"It's been better. Just been a long year for me all around."

"I can concur with that."

Both of us actually chuckled and we ended up talking for a good 15 minutes. For once he actually seemed much better to get along with than his usual crabby self. The time then got to a certain point where I realized we'd have to get up soon.

"Not that it would deter, but what did you need me for, something about Wednesday?"

"Oh that…" Toma sighed and readied himself. "Well my parents ended up getting Index and I airline tickets for a parade and football game all the way in California. They gave us 3 and well since I owe you for helping you so much this year lets say this is a way of repaying you."

His words fell on me like a ton of bricks.

"Repaying me?"

"Lets face it Misaka without me, you'd still be blowing up facilities…"

By that point I was sour….

"Look, how do you call what you did for me helping, I was just fine on my own…."

"You alienated your friends, Sharai actually asked me to help get you back to your senses…"

"I did what I had to do to stop the clones and Accelerator from taking over the city…and if it wasn't for that really unlucky hand of yours intervening a lot this year I'd have been able to do a lot more than that."

I could tell I hit his nerve a bit and that's when he got up and looked like he wanted to throw down.

"You ungrateful brat!" He wants a fight...he'll get one I also stand at the ready.

"Says the Level 0…"

"Says the Level 5 who's a bigger nutcase about her abilities than Accelerator ever was…."

"You know, its no wonder why Index linked onto you that hand of yours is just one long no good broken mirror."

"At least Sharai doesn't have to make her obvious wants to make your friendship go deeper any more clear. "

We started to gather an audience around us and as it looks like we were about to be thrown out, Toma managed to calm down as we both returned to our former positions.

"Misaka I'm going to make this simple…" He handed me 2 tickets from his hand. "HA Flight 210…Flight goes out at 10 on Wednesday come if you want. Although right now I could give a crap if you do…"

Toma got up from the table and he was still steamed at me…"Frankly your mom was right about others wanting to control you, you should be locked up. Also I want my tablet sent back…"

Now I wanted to shock him bad…"That tablet was from a good friend of mine…."

"And how did she get it…Once again that was all me."

Toma finally left, I paid my bill and ended up walking out just barley noticing Uiharu following behind me. Boy did i want to get as far away from them both. I put speed into my feet as she straddled behind me out of breath.

"Misaka wait…"

"You've got some explaining to do…"

Those were my only words to her the whole way back as I stared at the two tickets in my hand. I really hope Toma decides to leave the city cause at this point because at this point...

"I could care less what happens to him."

A/N: 6 Left Until The End...Stay Tuned